President Trump is making his mark on the White House and Washington, especially with the 250th anniversary of America next year, and those plans may include a triumphal arch.
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said on Saturday that he will not be "intimidated" or "deterred" by President Trump's perceived retribution threats, as a growing number of officials on the commander in chief's perceived enemies list face charges. The California Democrat, both a frequent critic of the president and target of his ire, said in a...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) will speak to the press Tuesday as lawmakers have just 14 days left until government funding lapses. Democrats face a critical choice of how much they want to work with their GOP colleagues to agree on a stopgap funding measure to keep the government open past the Sept. 30...
President Trump is set to make an announcement from the Oval Office Tuesday afternoon. “The President will be making an exciting announcement related to the Department of Defense," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. The Trump administration is expected to unveil a new location for Space Command, moving the agency's headquarters...
A federal appeals court has overturned a lower court’s ruling that prevented the Trump administration from clawing back billions of dollars in climate spending. The 2-1 decision from a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., vacated a lower court ruling that would have prevented the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from recouping billions issued for climate-friendly projects under...
Venezuela is at “maximum preparedness” in light of the U.S. military bolstering its maritime force in the Caribbean to combat threats from Latin American drug cartels, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said. “In the face of this maximum military pressure, we have declared maximum preparedness for the defense of Venezuela,” Maduro said on Monday during a...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Monday that the Trump administration has a wide array of backup plans to impose tariffs on foreign trading partners if the Supreme Court strikes down the rates set under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). "I'm confident the Supreme Court will ... uphold the president's authority to use IEEPA,"...
Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio (D) has endorsed Zohran Mamdani to lead the country’s largest city with the mayoral race just over two months away. The former mayor, who served two terms leading the city from 2014 to 2021, said in an op-ed in the New York Daily News published Tuesday that...
Richard Besser, former acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on Monday called Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a “major ideologue” amid turmoil at the CDC. “And now with the loss of leadership and secretary of Health who came in not just with policy differences, but he‘s...
Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed Tuesday that Moscow has never been against Ukraine joining the European Union (EU) but reiterated that the country’s potential ascension into NATO is “unacceptable.” "As for Ukraine's membership of the EU, we have never objected to this," Putin said while in China, according to Reuters. "As for NATO, this is...
President Trump will reportedly announce Tuesday that Space Command headquarters is moving to Alabama, reversing former President Biden's decision to keep the command in Colorado. “The President will be making an exciting announcement related to the Department of Defense," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement. The announcement is scheduled for 2...
MSNBC pundit Joe Scarborough suggested that Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) work with President Trump to fight crime in Chicago. “I actually think that JB Pritzker should do something radical,” Scarborough said on his morning talk show on MSNBC on Tuesday. “I think he should pick up the phone, call the president and say, you know and, 'I...
President Trump's newly applied tariffs on low-value imports will cost U.S. consumers money, potentially costing him votes as inflation rises and public approval of his handling of the economy sours.
House GOP leaders on Tuesday morning added to this week’s House schedule a vote on a resolution directing the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee to continue its investigation into matters surrounding the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The addition comes as leaders contend with an alternative push to force a vote on a...
